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Sales Tips: The Value of Process

Customer Centric Selling

Soon after starting my sales career I became aware there was a staggering list of things I needed to learn. I lacked the wisdom and experience to understand the difference between sales activities and progress. I had no concept or a sales process. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Why Are You Trying To Kill Me?

The Pipeline

Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. I’ll be the first to admit that you can probably find stats to the contrary, which just goes to show that sales and sales people are just as susceptible to hype as the next group. Sad but true.

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The Big O – Outcome Selling

The ROI Guy

Today’s buyer is more empowered, skeptical and frugal than ever before, providing a greater than ever challenge to sales professionals, and shaking the very foundations of traditional selling models. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated. Fight Frugalnomics with Outcome Selling?

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Spring has Sprung, and So Should New Sales and Marketing Practices

The ROI Guy

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have."

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Sales Training Insight into "IIWII"

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Training Article: "It Is What It Is" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company The naïve enthusiasm of youth fades as we age. How many CEO's take IIWII attitudes toward their sales organizations? IIWII conclusions cause CEO's to accept whatever results sales delivers.

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Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Quo for Sales Success

The ROI Guy

In a recent Harvard Business Review article , one of the most respected names in technology marketing and strategies, Geoffrey Moore discussed how diagnostic and benchmarking sales techniques can be used, particularly during a downturn, to help engage executives, open up new opportunities and unfreeze previously stuck sales processes.

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